Editing Alpha Omicron Pi (section)

==History==
[[File:Hughan-jessie-1898.jpg|thumb|[[Jessie Wallace Hughan]], one of four women who founded the first Alpha Omicron Pi chapter in 1897]]
[[File:Alpha Omicron Pi University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.jpg|thumb|The Alpha Omicron Pi sorority house at the [[University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign]] in [[Champaign, Illinois]]]]
The sorority was founded January 2, 1897, at [[Barnard College]].<ref name=":04">{{Cite news |date=January 2018 |title=Manual of Information |url=https://npcwomen.dynamic.omegafi.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2037/2018/01/manual-of-information-2018.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180618075328/https://npcwomen.dynamic.omegafi.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2037/2018/01/manual-of-information-2018.pdf |archive-date=2018-06-18 |access-date=2018-06-17 |work=National Panhellenic Conference |page=18 |edition=23rd}}</ref> Its founders were [[Jessie Wallace Hughan]], Helen St. Clair Mullan, Elizabeth Heywood Wyman, and Stella George Stern Perry. They pledged one another in the Columbia Law Library to begin their fraternity. Within one week of its founding, the four founders used their initiation ritual for the first time to initiate Anne Richardson Hall.<ref name="Baird's" /><ref name="Baird's Manual Online" />

National expansion began in 1898 with the founding of ''Pi chapter'' at [[Sophie Newcomb College]], now part of [[Tulane University]], in [[New Orleans]]. Stella George Stern Perry, who was then the president of the fraternity, contacted a New Orleans classmate, Evelyn Reed, who expressed compatible ideas about fraternities. Reed's sister, Katherine Reed, became the first pledge of ''Pi chapter''. After being initiated by Perry, Katherine Reed found others to initiate.<ref name="Baird's" /><ref>[https://www.alphaomicronpi.org/about/history/ ΑΟΠ's national website] notes the Tulane expansion, accessed 26 Aug 2018.</ref>

In 1905, Alpha Omicron Pi joined the [[National Panhellenic Conference]].<ref name=":03">{{Cite news|url=https://npcwomen.dynamic.omegafi.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2037/2018/01/manual-of-information-2018.pdf|title=Manual of Information|date=Jan 2018|work=National Panhellenic Conference|access-date=2018-06-17|page=10|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180618075328/https://npcwomen.dynamic.omegafi.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2037/2018/01/manual-of-information-2018.pdf|archive-date=2018-06-18|url-status=dead}}</ref>

In 1967, the fraternity partnered with the [[Arthritis Foundation]].<ref name=":0" /> In 1999, the fraternity's national council voted to establish '''{{lang|grc|ΑΟΠ}}''' Properties, a branch which manages individual chapter housing, including safety, finances, and maintenance. The subsidiary was then officially formed in 2001, but did not begin to transfer local housing contracts to national corporation control until 2009.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.alphaomicronpi.org/properties/history-aoii-properties/|title=The History Of AOII Properties {{!}} Alpha Omicron Pi|date=2018-08-06|work=Alpha Omicron Pi|access-date=2018-08-27|language=en-US}}</ref>